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Former NFL player attacked North Versailles woman in front of her 11-year-old son, police say
A former NFL player is accused of breaking into a North Versailles home and beating a woman in front of her 11-year-old son earlier this week. Rontez Miles, 33, of Forest Hills, is charged with burglary, aggravated assault, simple assault and criminal mischief in connection with the alleged attack. A...
Man who stabbed cousin to death gets reduction in sentence
An Allegheny County Common Pleas judge on Wednesday reduced the sentence for a man convicted of stabbing his cousin to death. Emmanual Jones, who was originally ordered to serve 8 1/2 to 17 years in prison will now serve seven to 14 years. Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski handed down the...
Eradicate Hate Summit returns to Pittsburgh
Nearly four years after a heavily armed gunman massacred worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue, Laura Ellsworth told University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Emeritus Mark Nordenberg, “Somebody has got to do something.” Ellsworth, partner-in-charge of global community service initiatives for the Jones Day law firm, wanted to make sure Pittsburgh...
Man critically injured in Turtle Creek shooting
A man was critically injured in a shooting late Tuesday in Turtle Creek, according to Allegheny County Police. First responders found the man when they were dispatched to a shooting reported shortly before 11:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of Airbrake Avenue. The victim, who suffered a gunshot wound to...
Gun found at Pittsburgh International checkpoint; no charges expected
Allegheny County Police said they do not expect to file charges against a 30-year-old Armstrong County man whose handgun was found in a duffel bag Wednesday at Pittsburgh International Airport. Police said Transportation Security Administration officers spotted the gun at the main security checkpoint at 3:30 a.m. Police determined that...
Former McKeesport teacher faces new sex charges as 8th child comes forward
A former McKeesport Area middle school teacher accused of sexually assaulting several children faces additional charges as an eighth alleged victim has come forward, police said. Allegheny County police on Tuesday charged Eric Vincent Fairman, 26, of Pleasant Hills, with corruption of minors, unlawful contact with a minor under the...
West Mifflin police seek missing teen
West Mifflin police said they are asking for the public’s help in their search for a missing teen. D’nyla Kennedy-Smith, 16, was last seen on Monday in the area of Midway Drive in West Mifflin. She was wearing a white shirt, blue jeans and brown Air Force shoes. She is...
Baldwin parents plead guilty to 3rd-degree murder in infant son’s drug death
Despite the tragic circumstances of his young life, Tommy Snelsire was always smiling, his grandfather said. He spent his first days at the Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh after being born addicted to heroin and fentanyl. Doctors treated him with methadone. While Tommy’s extended family was at the facility constantly, prosecutors...
Child finds loaded gun on playground at McKeesport day care
Police are investigating after a child found a loaded handgun on a playground at a McKeesport day care center. No one was injured in the incident that happened sometime last week, according to Jasmine Smith, a teacher at the McKeesport Child Development Center. She said McKeesport police were notified. The...
Pine-Richland parents voice concerns following racist social media incident involving students
In the first school board meeting since a Pine-Richland student’s racist homecoming proposal went viral on social media and made national news, several parents made it clear to the board on Sept. 12 that they want more education on diversity and inclusion in the district. “This district has been made...
Trial begins in death penalty case against man accused of starting Homewood fire that killed 3
Cecil Douglas Sr. was asleep in his third-floor bedroom on Dec. 20, 2017, when he heard his step-son’s girlfriend call out, “‘Mom, mom, the house in on fire.’” At first, Douglas told an Allegheny County jury on Monday, he thought maybe Shamira Staten had burned something in the kitchen as...
Remains found in Turtle Creek identified as man missing since last year
Remains found earlier this year in Turtle Creek have been identified as a man reported missing in Pitcairn last year, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. The skeletal remains were discovered May 23 in a wooded area near Lynn Avenue. The medical examiner’s office on Monday identified remains...
McKeesport crash sends 1 to hospital
At least one person was taken to a local hospital following a wreck late Sunday in McKeesport. Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV reported the crash happened at about 11 p.m. at the intersection of 12th and Walnut streets. Emergency crews had cleared the scene shortly before midnight. Additional details were not...
Mars man killed in Pine motorcycle crash
A Mars man was killed early Friday in a motorcycle crash in Pine, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said. Jaron Arthur Mckissick, 42, was killed in the crash at 3:30 a.m. at Route 910 and Karrington Drive, authorities said. No other vehicles were involved. Northern Regional Police Chief John...
Man shot and killed at Penn Hills gas station
A man was shot and killed Friday night while sitting in his vehicle at a gas station in the 4900 block of Allegheny River Boulevard in Penn Hills, authorities said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the man as 34-year-old Dante Benjamin Jones of Pittsburgh. Allegheny County Police said the...
Attorney for WPIAL, PIAA in concussion lawsuit shares vacation photos to downplay plaintiff’s alleged injuries
Photos shared in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court showed Shane Skillpa smiling with his girlfriend on a beach, posing on a jet ski and enjoying vacation. Skillpa is suing West Mifflin Area School District, the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League and the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, alleging that an August...
Bethel Park stabbings still under investigation
Bethel Park police said they are continuing to investigate the stabbing of a man and a woman during a domestic dispute Thursday afternoon. No arrests had been made as of lunchtime on Friday. The two were involved in a fight in the parking lot of the Crowne Plaza Hotel &...
Ross man shot at woman during assault, police say
A Ross man is in custody after police said he assaulted a woman Friday morning, pulled a pistol and attempted to shoot her. No one in the home was hit by the single round that was fired, police said. Johnathan Price, 34, surrendered to police at the scene and is...
Report: 2 stabbed in Bethel Park
A man and a woman were stabbed during an argument in the parking lot of a Bethel Park motel Thursday afternoon, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV. The two people were fighting in the parking lot of Crowne Plaza Hotel & Suites along Fort Couch Road when the stabbing occurred...
Ex-PWSA official sentenced to probation in sludge-dumping scandal
A former Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority supervisor was sentenced Thursday to serve one year’s probation and pay a $500 fine as a result of pleading guilty last year to conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act. Prosecutors say James Paprocki of Ross falsified records on sludge discharges into the...
Jury trial begins in West Mifflin football concussion lawsuit
An attorney for a former West Mifflin High School football player told a jury on Thursday that the school district, WPIAL and PIAA are responsible for his client not only sustaining a concussion in 2009 during practice but also for additional symptoms he claims it caused years later. But in...
Suspect in Prospect Terrace shooting arrested by U.S. marshals
U.S. marshals have arrested a man wanted in connection with a September 2021 fatal shooting in East Pittsburgh. Cecil H. Foreman, 45, of Braddock, is alleged to have shot and killed 22-year-old Michael Kelley in the 100 block of Prospect Drive. Kelley’s mother was also wounded in the Sept. 12,...
Bond denied for McKeesport teacher accused of sexual abuse
An Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge on Thursday denied bond for a local teacher and youth sports coach charged in connection with seven separate cases of sexually assaulting children. Eric Vincent Fairman, 26, of Pleasant Hills, had a bond hearing on Wednesday before Judge Edward J. Borkowski asking that he...
Pittsburgh International Airport breaks ground on new cargo facility
The $1.3 billion upgrade to Pittsburgh International Airport is well underway, and crews broke ground Thursday on a new cargo facility that will expand the airport’s already growing cargo traffic. Crews began work on Cargo 4, a 77,000 square-foot facility that will expand the airport’s cargo capacity and introduce new...
PRT Red Line T service disrupted during Thursday morning commute
Damage from a tree that fell on the Red Line tracks at the Kelton stop in Dormont caused Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) to halt Red Line service Wednesday night and Thursday morning and reroute traffic over the Blue Line. The tree fell on the tracks but also pulled down overhead...
